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The Introduction Page of the RSSSF

R.S.S.S.F. stands for Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. It
was originally founded as NERSSSF (for Northern European Rec.Sport.Soccer
Statistics Foundation) in January 1994 by three regular contributors
to the rec.sport.soccer newsgroup, namely, in alphabetical order,
Lars Aarhus, the maintainer of a fabulous archive on Norwegian football,
Kent Hedlundh, the organiser of the annual "RSS-Player of the Year" vote, and
Karel Stokkermans, once regular poster of scores
from (mostly) Eastern European leagues, and current maintainer of the
RSSSF Archive.
In the beginning of December 1994, we were joined by the then
DSFS Vice President and
maintainer of the ultimate WWW-page on German football,
Bernd Timmermann.

Since December 1994, we have been making league tables and all other
kind of statistical information on football and its history, which we
have been collecting for years, available through this archive - first
announced on rec.sport.soccer.

Since the introduction of this WWW-page, RSSSF membership has dramatically
increased, as can be seen from the list below. Clearly the restriction
to a specific region had to be dropped, so the name has been shortened to
simply RSSSF, the "Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation". The first
four members were joined by Søren Florin Elbech, organizer of the first
In Real Life Meeting on May 18, 1997, to form the "Board", which decides on
applications for membership and such issues.

Our major goal is collecting all kind of statistics, in particular
league tables from all over the world, on football, and making this
information available to those sharing our interest. Moreover, those
statistics should be as reliable as possible, which means that our
ultimate goal is to have correspondents from (and better yet in) the
countries involved.

New members are therefore in principle welcome if:

they can provide continuous coverage of as yet uncovered competitions;

they can ensure correctness of their data.

If you have more detailed data on competitions which are already covered,
we may be interested in co-operation; likewise if you have data which
cannot immediately be classified as results or tables, subject to the
discretion of the Board.

If you are interested in becoming a member, please follow the following
procedure:

study the RSSSF Charter to see whether you can
identify with our goals and policies;

check to what extent the data you're willing to provide are already
covered in the archive;

mail Kent Hedlundh, clearly stating
what type of data you want to provide;

supply a sample file with statistics and mail it to
Karel Stokkermans
for inclusion in the archive; this sample file should be either in ascii
(preferred) or html-format.

Your application will then be dealt with by the Board at its earliest
convenience.

We welcome all comments on the tables in the archive - be it on spelling
of club names, additional information, or simply corrections; please direct
them to karel at rsssf.com.